Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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3. oldal
... in this little episode in common life , depends almost en- tirely on the greater or less degree of interest attached to the different changes of appearance . Or The mere suddenness of the transition , the mere ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... in this little episode in common life , depends almost en- tirely on the greater or less degree of interest attached to the different changes of appearance . Or The mere suddenness of the transition , the mere ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
8. oldal
... greater curiosity , or because the old impression , from its habitual hold on the imagination , still recurs mechanically , so that it is longer before we can seriously make up our minds to the unaccountable deviation from it . The ...
... greater curiosity , or because the old impression , from its habitual hold on the imagination , still recurs mechanically , so that it is longer before we can seriously make up our minds to the unaccountable deviation from it . The ...
10. oldal
... greater resistance we make , and the greater the perplexity into which we are thrown , the more lively and piquant is the intellectual dis- play of cross - purposes to the by - standers 10 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... greater resistance we make , and the greater the perplexity into which we are thrown , the more lively and piquant is the intellectual dis- play of cross - purposes to the by - standers 10 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
11. oldal
... greater ; for by en- deavouring to keep the obnoxious image out of sight , it comes upon us more irresistibly and re- peatedly ; and the inclination to indulge our mirth , the longer it is held back , collects its force , and breaks out ...
... greater ; for by en- deavouring to keep the obnoxious image out of sight , it comes upon us more irresistibly and re- peatedly ; and the inclination to indulge our mirth , the longer it is held back , collects its force , and breaks out ...
14. oldal
... greater is the joke . There is nothing more powerfully humorous than what is called keeping in comic character , as we see it very finely exemplified in Sancho Panza and Don Quixote . The proverbial phlegm and the romantic gravity of ...
... greater is the joke . There is nothing more powerfully humorous than what is called keeping in comic character , as we see it very finely exemplified in Sancho Panza and Don Quixote . The proverbial phlegm and the romantic gravity of ...
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absurdity admirable affectation amusing appearance beautiful Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson better Brass burlesque Caleb Williams character colour comedy comic common Congreve Conscious Lovers delightful Dick Don Quixote dramatic dress elegance Epicene equal excellent eyes face Falstaff fancy farce feeling folly genius Gil Blas give grace heart Hogarth Hudibras human idea imagination imitation instance interest invention kind Lady laugh lively look Lord lover ludicrous manners metaphysical poets Millamant mind moral nature ness never night novel object observation original painted passion person play pleasure poet poetry pretensions Provoked Wife racter reason refinement ridiculous romantic satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment serious Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew sort Spectator spirit stage story style Tartuffe Tatler thee thing thought tion Tom Jones truth turn vice Volpone whole wife words writers Wycherley